Tag: sexual reproduction
Springs, Glues, and Rocket Launchers in Cell Division
The molecules of life do much more than convey information. They combine and impose physical forces on each other in intricate, functional ways.
Synergies All the Way Down
Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.
Sex: A Masterpiece of Design
“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place. And so you require multiple codependent sub-functions.”
Sex: Engineered for Success
Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system?
Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory
Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it?